Creative Leadership
January 15, 2008
A Harvard Business School study looked at job satisfaction. Orchestra players came just below prison guards. Chamber musicians came in at number 1. What’s the difference? The presence of a conductor.
Boston Philharmonic Conductor Ben Zander, speaking at Leaders in London 2007
The leader, according to Zander, is the one who is masterful at creating and holding distinctions. Learning and leading is not about the transference of information, from conductor to orchestra or leader to employee. It is about the opening up of new categories to help people make sense of and thrive in a fast-changing world in which existing categories are not creative enough. “Framemakers create new frames. There is no problem that can’t be solved if you are willing to make a new frame, a new category.”
From Phil Dourado via Johnnie.
I wonder what Mike makes of this?
Not all music making is the same.
Perhaps I will keep my music to off-key singing in the shower while I think of new frames for the people I work with.
Oh David – surely you’re shower singing can’t be that bad 🙂